Map of COVID Death Cases

This post will be showing how I created a choropleth map that shows which states had more deaths due to COVID as of Feb. 22 compared with others.

Nicole Miller https://www.google.com
04-18-2021

The first thing I did was download the necessary packages and then import the New York Time’s COVID case data for US states. I also downloaded the polygon boundaries for states at the lowest resolution using the tigris package.

I then filtered the covidcases data to only show the number of deaths on 2021-02-22. I selected the date, state, and deaths columns to be the only information shown. I renamed this data ‘filtered_states’. I then utilized the geo-join function in order to merge the ‘states’ and ‘filtered_states’ data sets together. After that, I ran the mypalette function and selected my map color scheme to be yellow and green. I then started adding in all of my data into the Leaflet function. I selected the appropriate coordinates and zoom level in setView and added the appropriate data in the addPolygons function. I selected the fill color, fill opacity, weight, smoothfactor, and label options. The addLegend function allowed me to add in a small box on the bottom right corner called “Total death”. I set the number of bins to 4 so that only four values were displayed. After that I ran the function and got my choropleth map.


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